Handling difficult conversations with the board, internal investigations and the challenges posed by social media all feature on the agenda at Legal Week's annual Corporate Counsel Forum Middle East next month.

More than 150 senior in-house lawyers will attend the one-day conference, which will be held at the Park Hyatt in Dubai on 13 May and chaired by Arab Banking Corporation's Afshan Akhtar.

Speakers include Anneliese Reinhold, GC of regional telecoms leader du, Deepa Tharmaraj, legal director of Dell, Mark Beer, chief executive and registrar of the DIFC Courts, and Tony Moss, head of discovery at British American Tobacco.